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Skyrim Faces the Greatest Threat it Has Ever Seen: Giant Friendship-Breathing Ponies

Mike Fahey — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:30:00 EST

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The twisted terror of the Macho Man has nothing on the latest threat to besiege the people of Skyrim. Friendship becomes a dark magic indeed when My Little Pony Fluttershy descends from on high. More »

This Zelda NES Mod Is Magical

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:30:00 EST

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Platinumfungi grew up playing The Legend of Zelda and decided the best way to say thanks was with a NES case mod and this lovely video. More »

Watch a WWE Legend Burn Down a Village in Skyrim

Owen Good — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:00:00 EST

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I believe the famous professional wrestler, given name Randall Mario Poffo, once said "The same fire the dragon breathes, he shall burn by." More »

This Brutally Cute Skyrim Mod Shouldn't Have a Sword

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:30:00 EST

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Ask any fan of virtual idol Miku Hatsune. It should have a leek. The character, who always carries a leek, is huge in Japan, and Toyota is even using Miku to sell cars in the West. More »

Futurama's Dr. Zoidberg Versus Spider Spider-Man in a Skyrim Battle Royale

Brian Crecente — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:00:00 EST

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Perhaps these Dr. Zoidberg modded Skyrim mudcrabs aren't as freaky as the contorted spider Spider-Men, but their screams of agony when you kill them are pretty spot on. More »

The Guy Who Made GTA IV Look This Gorgeous Is Hard At Work on Modding Skyrim

Brian Crecente — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:00:00 EST

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The Icenhancer graphic mod for Grand Theft Auto IV turns Rockstar's game into something some could mistake for film, rather than a video game. More »

This Xbox 360 Sleeps with the Fishes. No, Really.

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:20:00 EST

The Red Ring of Death claimed many original Xbox 360s. Some of them were fixed. Some of them were recycled. And this one ended up a saltwater aquarium with live corals, fish, crabs, snails, and shrimp. More »

Minecraft's Blocky Water Made Wondrous, Shimmering, Natural

Brian Crecente — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:30:00 EST

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I'm a HUGE Minecraft fan. Sure, it could use a bit more hand-holding, but in general I'm a big fan of the game and how much it coaxes creativity out of everyone who plays it. More »

Grab a Mug of Mead, Sit Back and Enjoy This Charming Bilingual Skyrim Song

Brian Crecente — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:40:00 EST

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There are plenty of musical takes on Skyrim's many beautiful songs, but this is my favorite of the week, sung by the talented, and bilingual, Malukah from Monterrey, Mexico. More »

The Queen of Blades is No Match for the New and Improved Blizzard DOTA

Mike Fahey — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:00:00 EDT

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Kerrigan. The Queen of Blades. The most feared woman in the known universe, destroyer of worlds, and murderer of millions. The greatest leader the Zerg has ever known. More »

Insane Unreal Tournament 3 Modders Weaponize Nyan Cat

Mike Fahey — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:00:00 EDT

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Modder Scott Coxhead lives up to his Cr4zyB4st4rd handle by merging Unreal Tournament 3's player-guided Redeemer with that scourge of the internet, Nyan Cat. More »

We're One Step Closer to a Wall-E Society with This Kinect Powered Chair

Owen Good — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:40:00 EDT

The best part about this Kinect-powered armchair? Microsoft's going to release the source code for it. Shown off today at the company's MIX11 coder symposium, the Kinect-powered La-Z-Boy is a proof of concept for the Kinect PC software development kit, which will open up development over Visual Basic and C++. More »

Some Guy Made A Portable GameCube

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:00:00 EDT

Not sure why. It seems the guy wants to sell it or something. Not sure how I feel about the exposed disc drive and the ever-so-close shoulder buttons. More »

The Simple Hack To Gain Full Control Over a Best Buy 3DS Demo Unit

Owen Good — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:30:00 EDT

Demo units of the Nintendo 3DS are out in many major retailers now. They autoload Pilotwings Resort, or whatever game they're demonstrating, so you can't access the device's menu. Well, now you can, so you can see for yourself what lies beneath. More »

Anti-Defamation League Slams 'Fun" Holocaust Video Game As Horrific And Inappropriate

Brian Crecente — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:30:00 EST

A video game that depicts an uprising in a Nazi death camp has drawn harsh criticism from the Anti-Defamation League, which told Kotaku that the Holocaust should be off-limits for video games. More »

Predator Camo Comes To Kinect

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:00:00 EST

You know in Predator how the creature is able to cloak itself in the surroundings and appear almost invisible? Well, someone figured out how to do that on Kinect. More »

Playing World Of Warcraft In StarCraft II

Mike Fahey — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:20:00 EDT

There are World of Warcraft Blizzard fans, and there are StarCraft Blizzard fans. What do you get when the two meet? You get a World of Warcraft StarCraft II mod. More »

Star Wars Mod Fulfills Fanboy Dreams

Aulistar Mark — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:00:00 EDT

Star Wars: Requiem, a mod of 2008 PC game Sins of a Solar Empire that just received another update, is what a Star Wars space real-time strategy game should look and play like. More »

Dragon Age: Origins Is The First Game About Gay Marriage & The Power of Mods

Robert Yang — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:00:00 EDT

Robert Yang, a video game design student, comments on a Dragon Age mod that enabled new dating options, including gay romance. We're republishing his account of what happened when he played it. There will be marked spoilers. More »

Games Within Games: Making Asteroids, Final Fantasy and Metal Slug in Starcraft II

Brian Crecente — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:30:00 EDT

Starcraft II looks to be an amazing game in its own right, but it's also an incredible tool for making your own games. More »

The Best Terminator Game May Be Fan Made

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:40:00 EDT

We can't say with total certainty whether FPS Terminator, a fan-made mod built on the Unreal Engine, will be the best, but it's safe to assume that it's better than the most recent entry, Terminator Salvation. Sorry, GRIN! More »

Valve Unleashes An Alien Swarm On Steam

Mike Fahey — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:30:00 EDT

The Alien Swarm Unreal Tournament 2004 mod becomes a full, Source-powered four-player co-op tactics game, available for free on Steam this Monday, courtesy of the nice folks at Valve. More »

Boombox Modded Into Dreamcast

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:30:00 EDT

Why? Oh why? More »

Street Fighter IV Played With A Guitar Sounds Horrible

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:40:00 EDT

Street Fighter IV? Great game. Guitar? Cool instrument. The sound of SFIV being played with a guitar? More »

Do Not Modify Computers Or Consoles In Canada, Don't!

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:00:00 EDT

Last month, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police searched residence in Roberval, Quebec, which culminated in one arrest of one suspect who advertised selling pirated games through the internet and the seizure of hundreds of counterfeit games. But wait, there's more. More »

NSFW: Dead or Alive Paradise Hacked For Nudity

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:00:00 EDT

"Creepy" jiggly beach volleyball game Dead or Alive: Paradise features female characters in skimpy bikinis. Or does it? More »

Left 4 Dead, Meet The Mushroom Kingdom

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:30:00 EDT

There's a bustling Left 4 Dead mod community over at L4Dmaps.com, whipping up also sorts of custom maps like this Super Mario Bros. 64 map created by modder DoritoClock. Who knew Princess Peach's Castle could be so nightmarish? More »

SNES Portable Case Mod Does Not Stop At Case Mod

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:00:00 EDT

There's also a custom box creation. French modder darthchris13 whipped up the creation and then compared it size-wise to a SEGA GameGear. More »

Your N64 Case Mod Is In Another Castle

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:00:00 EDT

As seen on Technabob. More »

A Crystal Clear Look Inside The DSi

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:00:00 EDT

The Nintendo DSi comes in several colorful casings. But those don't let you see what's going on inside. You know, the hand held's innards. More »

Playing Super Mario Bros. On A Theremin

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:00:00 EDT

The theremin isn't only good for playing "Good Vibrations", it's also good for playing Super Mario Bros. — not just the music, but the game itself. More »

Unknown Worlds Triumphantly Teases Natural Selection 2

Mike Fahey — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:40:00 EDT

The developers of popular Half-Life mod Natural Selection are preparing to release standalone sequel Natural Selection 2 this year via Steam, and we've got the exclusive teaser trailer to prove it. More »

Unreal Conversion Killing Floor Gets Retail Redux

Mike Fahey — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:20:00 EDT

Tripwire Interactive today announces Killing Floor, a co-op first-person survival horror shooter for the PC based on an Unreal Tournament 2004 conversion. More »

Homebrew Wii HDD Workaround Succeeds Where Nintendo Does Not

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:30:00 EST

No HDD on the Wii eh, Nintendo? Big mistake. Makes Wii owners sad. Never mind, while Nintendo may be lacking the will to make a storage device for the Wii, others are more adventurous. More »

Wolfenstein: The PC Case Mod

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:00:00 EST

Dubbed the FuG-01/ET, this case mod was inspired by the Wolfenstein games. It's got dual electric gauges: one measures amperage, and the other core voltages. And a phone! Ring-a-ding. More »

Least Productive DS Mod Ever

Brian Crecente — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

This has got to be the most work for the least return I've ever seen in a mod. The Geekothon points to a modder who completely gutted his DS Lite so he could: More »

The LCD-Packing Xbox 360 Briefcase

Brian Crecente — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:00:00 EST

You see before you an Xbox 360 modded to fit snuggly into a watertight, dust proof and crushproof Pelican case. More »

Source Mods Free on Steam

Brian Crecente — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:30:00 EDT

To celebrate the launch of MODs on Steam, Valve is giving away five "leading Source MODs" to anyone who owns a Source-based game. The publisher is also offering Half-Life 2: Episode One on steam for $5. More »

Wii-mote Jog Through Google Map Tokyo

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:00:00 EDT

A Japanese modder has mashed Google Maps with the Wii-mote to create "Tokyo-jogging". It works pretty much like Jogging in Wii Sports: Users put the Wii-mote in their pocket and run in place. Instead of running through a Nintendo created background, users can jog (in place) through the streets of Tokyo. The interface looks somewhat slow — but there's potential here! More »

Say "Mucho Gusto" To DSTwitter

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:20:00 EDT

Twitter addicts, listen up! A modded version of the micro blogging social networking network du jour is DS-ready. Dubbed DSTwitter, the application currently runs only in Spanish, which is great news if you know Spanish. Not so great if you don't. The software is currently on version 1.2, so fingers crossed an English language version is in the cards. More »